Test Taking in the Health Sciences

1. Test Taking in the Health Sciences SASSI Kathy Gibbs Fall 2017 SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

2. SASSIwww.uthsc.edu/sassi • Tutoring • Educational Specialist Sessions • Disability Services • Tutoring • Resources • Website Workshops and Worksheets/Power Points SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

3. Educational Specialist Appointments • Educational Specialists (online, over the phone, in person) • www.uthsc.edu/sassi SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

4. Performance Factors • Knowledge • Review Strategy • Reading Rate • Anxiety • Test Taking Strategies and/or Process • Physical, Mental, and Emotional Health • Self-Image SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

5. Preparation for Higher Level LearningThink Like A __________ • Stay with the Day • PR² • Learn from the Pros • Relationships Work • Remember, you are a student SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

6. Preview • Overview • Reading Material • Lecture Slides • Lecture Objectives • Question Stems SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

7. Review • Rehearsal (do not use notes, text or slides) • Brain Dump • Objectives • Lecture Slides • Comparison/Contrast • Make-up Questions from Slides • Practice Questions/Cases SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

8. Lecturing, Reviewing, and Retaining (Learning) Without reviewing, within 1-2 days, we forget about 80% of what we have learned. http://brain.web-us.com/brain/brainmemoryrythms.html SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

9. Re-Review • Reinforcing and Fine-Tuning • Strategic Approach for Lecture/Lecture Slides (Not re-listening to entire lectures) • More Questions • Identify Source for Fine-Tuning • Professors • Texts • Tutors SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

10. How do you know, when you know?Bloom’s Taxonomy SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

11. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Applying – Apply, Compare, Contrast, Demonstrate, Examine, Relate, Solve & Use. Problem solving information to produce some result by integrating facts, rules and principles. • How is ... an example of ...? • How is ... related to ...? • Why is ... significant? http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/questype.htm SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

12. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Analyzing – compare, differentiate, examine, Subdivide something to show how it is put together, find the underlying structure • What are the parts or features of ...? • How does ... compare/contrast with ...? http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/questype.htm SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

13. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Evaluating – solve, assess, resolve inconsistencies, judgments or decisions. • What is the most important ...? • Place the following in order of priority ... • How would you decide about ...? • What criteria would you use to assess ...? http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/questype.htm SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

14. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Creating - create a unique, original product from a combination of ideas to form a new whole, • What would you predict/infer from ...? • What ideas can you add to ...? • How would you create/design a new ...? • What might happen if you combined ...? • What solutions would you suggest for ...? http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/questype.htm SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

15. Brain Hacks SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

16. Showing More of What You Know • Go with what you KNOW • Narrow to 2-3 choices • Apply “Doctors” • Set a Pace and Keep Moving • Be A Warrior SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

17. COGNITIVE ARMOR • What did you do to prepare for the assessment? (List these in detail) • What worked? • What are 2-3 things you know well? • Look for “Doctors” SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

18. DOCTORS Doctors according to The Princeton Review are: • words that when taken out of the question or the choices, change the question and subsequently the answer chosen. • QUESTION Michael, age 3 years, was admitted to the emergency room after being rescued from a fire in his home. He is having difficulty breathing.An early sign of respiratory distress that you might observe in Michael is: SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

19. An early sign of respiratory distress that you might observe in Michael is: • The doctor in the question/stem is "early". SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

20. CHOICES • a.Increased pulse rate • b. Cyanosis • c. Decreased pulse rate • d. Clammy skin SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

21. “Doctors” in choices A sign of respiratory distress is Cyanosis but an early sign of respiratory distress is increased pulse rate. • The doctor in “a.” is increased. • The doctor in “c.” is decreased. • The doctor in “d.” is clammy. SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

22. Process of Elimination • a. Increased pulse rate • b. Cyanosis SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

23. Which is “more of” an EARLY sign of respiratory distress? • Increased pulse rate SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

24. COMPARE AND CONTRAST If the answer is still not clear, compare and contrast the choices. • * Identify any similarities and/or differences between the choices left. What do they have in common - function, location, characteristics? • * How are they different - is there a degree of difference? • * Is one more general or broad and one more specific or detailed? • * How are they related to the main idea/s of the question? • * Is one more closely associated with the main idea than the other? SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

25. Reflection and Self-EvaluationThe Path to Matching Performance with Preparation • What did I do that worked – with a question or topic that I felt good about, what worked – reviewing notes, creating an outline, answering practice questions, going to lab, etc.? • Knowing what I know now, what would I have done differently – added, deleted, modified, etc. SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

26. Active Processingwith Questions(The Pay-Off) SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

27. CONTACTMaximizing Questions Retain up to 50% more Compared to Repeatedly studying the material or Drawing out SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

28. Illusion SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017

29. Take Care of Yourself • Eat Well – Breakfast of Champions • Warm- Up with 5-10 Questions before the Test • Helpful Thinking – If it is not helping you, choose something • that is more helpful and more reality-based • Sleep • Exercise • Don’t Isolate • Relaxation • Mental Health • Test Taking Analysis SASSI, Kathy Gibbs, Fall 2017